Al- Althkar (The Invocations ) Al - Nawawiyah
Compiled by The Jurist, the traditionist Imam Muhyi ddin Abi Zakariyah  Yahya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi Al-Dimashqi 
A New Revised Edition Dar El-Fikr For Printing and Publishing, Beirut, Lebanon
Hardback 503 Pages
Rendered to English By Sulaima Al-Sheikh Muhammad
Corrected and revised By F Amira Zrein Matraji
English Only (Unfortunately the Arabic text is not included)

  About Imam al-Nawawi (d. 676/1277) 

Imam Muhyi ddin Abi Zakariyah  Yahya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi Al-Dimashqi  knows simply as Imam Nawawi  was  Born in the village of Nawa in Southern Syria, Imam Nawawi spent most of his life in Damascus where he lived in a simple manner, devoted to Allah, engaging single-mindedly in worship, study, writing and teaching various Islamic sciences. .
Although best known for his works in hadith, Yahya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi (d. 676/1277) was also the Imam of the later Shafi'i school of Jurisprudence, and widely acknowledged as the intellectual heir to Imam Shafi'i. He was a renowned  scholar and jurist who dedicated his life to the pursuit of Islamic learning.
Imam Nawawi died at the young age of 44 years, leaving behind him numerous works of great

Imam Nawawi is well know for books which are easy to understand 
"...He has not placed any hardship upon you in religion..." [TM Qur'an 22:78]
"Whenever you speak to the people of something their mind cannot comprehend, it could lead some of them towards fitna " (Muslim)

 

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 Forty Gems : Al Arba'in Imam Nawawi
Arabic-English
English Translation with Commentary of An-Nawawis Forty Hadith
by Dr.Muhammad Yusuf Abbasi 
Paperback 223 Pages
Published by Adam Publishers India 

Imam an-Nawawi assembled his collection of forty two ahadith together with the minimum of fiqh and commentary necessary for people not to misunderstand them. 
Imam Nawawi describes this work as follows in his introduction
"I, however, considered it best to bring together forty hadith more important than all of these, being forty hadith which would incorporate all of these, each hadith being one of the great precepts of religion, described by religious scholars as being "the axis of Islam " or "the half of Islam" or "the third of it ", or the like, and to make it a rule that these forty hadith be [classified as] sound and that the majority of them be in the Sahihs of Al-Bukhari and Muslim." 
He goes on to Say:
"Every person wishing to attain the Hereafter should know these hadith because of the important matters they contain and the directions they give in respect of all forms of obedience, this being obvious to anyone who has reflected upon it"

Keeping the importance of the subject this Book entitled  Forty Gems has been compiled with Arabic text and translated In simple English language with specifac meanings of Hadith terminology, phrases and useful explanatory notes by Dr.Muhammad Yusuf Abbasi professor of History in Qaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad.

 

About Imam Nawawi
The learned Imam Yahya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi  also known as Mohy-ud-Din and Shaikh-ul-Islam (d. 676AH/1277AD) had a very short life but even during this short period, he had written a large number of books on different subjects. Every work of the Imam is a masterwork and a treasure of knowledge. Hundreds and thousands of people benefit from these works.

Some of the Prestigious Works of Imam Nawawi are:

Commentary on Sahih Al-Bukhari, Al-Minhaj fi Sharh Sahih Muslim, Riyad-us-Saliheen, Kitab-ur-Raudah, Commentary on Mohadhdhab, Tahdhib-ul-Asma was-Sifat, Kitab-ul-Adhkar, Arba'een, At-Taqreeb fi Ilmil-Hadith wal-Irshad fihi, Kitab-ulMubhamat, At-Tibyan, Al-Idah fi Manasikil-Hajj, Sharh Sahih AlBukhari (Naqis), Sharh Sunan Abi Dawud (Naqis), Tabaqat Ash Shafi'iyah, Muhimmatul-Ahkam, Manaqib-ush-Shafi'i, Bustan-ulArifeen, Al-Khulasatu fil-Hadith, Mukhtasar At-Tirmidhi, A1Masa'il Al-Manthurah, Al-'Umdah fi Tashihit-Tanbih and others

Imam Nawawi was also the Imam of the later Shafi’i school of jurisprudence, and widely acknowledged as the intellectual heir of Imam Shafi’i. He was a great scholar and jurist who dedicated his life to the pursuit of Islamic learning

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